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The Business Value of DevOps

Online

Join us for a FREE webinar with Enterprise Data Professional and Dalhousie Instructor Roy Kaushik. You will learn why DevOps and Cloud have such widespread adoption in the Enterprise. Roy will also share details about our new Certificate in DevOps and Cloud Fundamentals and be happy to answer your questions.

Boost the Value of Your Learning

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Are you ready to get more from your past and future learning? The Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and Microcredentials programs in the Faculty of Open Learning and Career Development help recognize the value of your skills and knowledge and help you promote yourself. RPL awards benefits such as advanced standing or program admission while microcredentials demonstrate mastery of practical—and immediately applicable—skills. In this webinar you will: Receive an overview of the Microcredentials and RPL Programs Hear how both programs can help you achieve your academic and career goals Learn more about how to take part in Microcredentials or RPL

Women In Entrepreneurship Speaker Series

IdeaHUB 1345 Norma Eddy Lane, Room 1003, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Join us for the 3rd and final installment of the Women in Entrepreneurship Speaker Series. November 19th is Women’s Entrepreneurship Day! According to Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization “Today, women account for 85 percent of consumer purchases and control $20 trillion in global spending. At the same time, they perform 66 percent of the world’s work (both paid and unpaid) yet only earn 10 percent of the world’s income. Join us, as our panel discusses their success and how be can continue to build a diverse and inclusive Dalhousie community for Entrepreneurs. This is an IN-PERSON event held at IdeaHUB, so as per Dalhousie regulations: Masks must be worn. Proof of vaccination must be provided at the door OR sent digitally to Michael Carew mwcarew@dal.ca prior to the event.

The Business Value of DevOps

Online

Join us for a FREE webinar with Enterprise Data Professional and Dalhousie Instructor Roy Kaushik. In this webinar, you will learn why DevOps and Cloud have such widespread adoption in the Enterprise. Roy will also share details about our new Certificate in DevOPs and Cloud Fundamentals and be happy to answer your questions.

Why Positive Workplace Culture Matters

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We’ll be hosting a discussion of why a positive workplace culture is more critical now than ever. With so many employers aiming to foster psychological safety, improve morale, and retain valued talent, we need these strategies more than ever before. There’s talk about the Great Resignation, yet the biggest reason people leave their job isn’t really about money. It’s about relationships. Let’s learn together some critical ideas about strengthening those important workplace relationships and making a more positive workplace culture.

Being a Great Coach Makes You a Better Leader

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Ted Herbert has been a master coach for over 25 years and a leadership development director since 1998. Join him for a conversation about how you can build your coaching skills. For decades, leaders have recognized the value of helping people improve their performance by applying coaching strategies that have worked for centuries. From John Wooden to Michael Bungay Stanier, coaches have applied tried and true techniques to get the most from those they lead. Ted honed his coaching skills with athletes from minor soccer, basketball and football. He served as a bobsleigh coach at the Olympics and has developed Olympians in a variety of sports. As a leadership coach, Ted has applied techniques to help people in leadership roles across a variety of industries. This webinar will introduce the elements of successful coaching and answer questions about how to help those you lead improve at whatever they are striving for.

Shannex Hackathon

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Are you interested in improving long-term care in Canada? Do you want a chance to tackle current, real-world challenges using current health data? Then register for the Shannex Hackathon hosted by Pulse, Dalhousie's Health Innovation Sandbox! Work in interdisciplinary teams to develop data-driven solutions to current, real-world problems Register individually or with a team (up to 5 people per team) Opportunity to win a summer 2022 internship with Shannex after the event Gift card prizes to be won Students from all faculties and departments are encouraged to apply. Please register by February 23, 2022

Women in Tech Day 2022

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Women in Tech Day is an interactive exploration which encourages young women to explore computer science and technology! Women in Tech Day is an inspiring, stereotype-busting, interactive exploration which encourages young women to consider the many career pathways and ever-increasing employment openings which exist through the study of computer science and technology. This event will help young women realize the possibilities offered through a career in technology by hearing important messages of the future from other students, faculty, and industry. The skill sets needed by industry through the study of computer science and IT can be linked to every aspect of study from communication, art and design, business, medicine, health, engineering, law, and more. In addition to hearing from our industry and student mentors, your students will be working through a series of activities using python to solve problems in data types, variables, input/output, if statements, and loops. With the help of our instructor and female mentors, they will be put into groups to solve logic and coding problems to build their confidence in computing! Coding experience isn’t necessary to attend the event.